LAWS AND AGREEMENTS

ACTS OF FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS--SECOND SESSION, 1877.

Feb. 28, 1877.
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19 Stat., 254.

CHAP. 75.--An act to ratify an agreement with certain bands of the Sioux Nation of Indians, and also with the Northern Arapaho and Cheyenne Indians.{b}

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United. . .

Found on pages 168-172, Vol. 1, Laws.

CHAP. 202.--An act granting the right of way to the Yankton and Missouri Valley Railway Company through the Yankton Indian Reservation in Dakota.

Feb. 23, 1889.
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25 Stat., 684.

Found on pages 311-313, Vol. 1.

CHAP. 405.--An act to divide a portion of the reservation of the Sioux Nation of Indians in Dakota into separate reservations and to secure the relinquishment of the Indian title to the remainder, and for other purposes.

Mar. 2, 1889.
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25 Stat., 888.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following tract of land, being a part of the Great Reservation of the Sioux Nation . . .

Found on pages 328-339, Vol. I, Laws.

CHAP. 421.--An act for the disposition of the agricultural lands embraced within the limits of the Pipestone Indian Reservation in Minnesota.

Mar. 2, 1889.
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25 Stat., 1012.

Found on pages 343-344, Vol. 1.

AGREEMENT WITH THE YANKTON SIOUX OR DAKOTA INDIANS, IN SOUTH DAKOTA.

[28 Stat., 314.]

Ed. Note: "Done at the Yankton Indian agency, Greenwood, South Dakota, this thirty-first day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-two (Dec. 31st, 1892)";
This agreement led to allotment on the Ihanktonwan Nakota Oyate homelands. lrb

Found on pages 523-529, Vol. 1.

CHAP. 69.--An act to authorize the reconstruction of a bridge across the Niobrara River near the village of Niobrara, Nebraska, and making an appropriation therefor.

May 7, 1894.
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28 Stat., 72.

Found on page 510, Vol. 1.

YANKTON SIOUX LANDS. MAY 16, 1895.
No. 1.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
A PROCLAMATION.
May 16, 1895.
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29 Stat., 865.

Ed. Note: Opening of unallotted lands to homesteaders, etc.

Found on pages 985-986, Vol. 1.

CHAP. 31.--An act granting leave of absence for one year to homestead settlers upon the Yankton Indian Reservation, in the State of South Dakota, and for other purposes.

Feb. 26, 1896.
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29 Stat., 16.

Approved, February 26, 1896.

Found on page 576, Vol. 1.

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